adjective

In the Barrow region, local schools broke away from the Bureau of Indian Affairs administration and formed local boards of education more amenable to the teaching of Inupiaq language, history, and customs.

It's where they gather for Sunday school, Sunday morning and evening worship, and a Wednesday night praise service led by the elders in the Inupiaq language.

It is also the ancestral home of Inupiat Eskimos and Gwich'in Athabascan Indians, who depend on the bounty of the refuge to survive.